Suppose Bush resigns before being impeached

[electron_blue]

This sounds great and wonderful, right? Careful what we wish for, bcs it would be incredibly easy at this point for Bush to be made scapegoat for this whole thing, let impeachment build enough steam and then Bush is forced to resign by the country (and his cronies) and abracadabra, we now have President Cheney to lead us the rest of the way!! Ye gawds.

What am I missing here? How can you argue for Bush to be impeached or resign on his own without at least fearing a Cheney takeover?

In fact it has been argued here at DU (and elsewhere) that perhaps Bush is being setup by Rove and Cheney to look like an idiot here. Why else would Rove not have "handled" Bush better than this?

[Jawja]

1. I don't care

HOW he is removed from office - he needs to be out of office NOW.

[Child_Of_Isis]

2. He will not resign

and Cheney is not well enough to be president.

[midnight armadillo]

31. That's right he won't

Resigning would be admitting error, something which Bush is incapable of.

[uppityperson]

3. We will force Cheney out too.

Remember Nixon/Agnew?

[MissWaverly]

4. The Republicans know this better than us

they have mountains of evidence against Cheney, all they have to do
is ask him to step aside for health reasons,

[npincus]

5. wake up from your beautiful dream

it'll never happen. not in a million years.

[liberaliraqvet26]

6. Resign, he wont even say im sorry

[babylonsister]

7. I don't think he should have the option, as much as

I want him out of there. The whole evil cabal has to go, and there is more than enough evidence to prove it. Now, will anyone with cojones and clout step up?

[MuseRider]

8. I just want him gone.

Nobody likes Cheney he scares everyone I have ever spoken with and they are mostly Republicans where I live.

Think about it. Where in the hell is the Chimp going to go? Crawford and Kennebunkport are the only two places he can really go. Most of the rest of the world hates him, even where he has won there are enough people who hate him that he really would never be safe or comfortable anywhere. May he suffer a long, lonely life. Nobody deserves that more than this guy......along with Pappy and the Quaker Oats man he call Mother.

[laugle]

13. The quaker oats man=mother, LOL, I didn't

get it at first, I had to remember what that picture on the box looks like, I vaguely remember.....but that's funny...my laugh for the day...thanks

Did you see the old bag on Larry King. The first thing out of her mouth was "I met alot of single mothers and baby's" hidden message "a bunch of unwed mothers", how does she know they are single. Maybe the husbands got seperated or killed while her son was golfing?

[MuseRider]

16. I missed it thankfully

but DU is always so good to oblige with the tidbits of monstrosity that comes from this crew.

I am watching the US Open to save my sanity.

That is an old one that I got from DU, also she has been called George Washington but I think we all began to feel bad about that but it does fit, looks wise anyway.

[movonne]

9. Draft Gore...and give him his rightly place....we have to get rid

of them all...and everyone he appointed..

[SledDriver]

10. Makes sense...

I can't see how Bush would be smart enough to make it this far, unless Cheney/Rove were setting him up as a scapegoat. They are behind all of the evil, Bush gets the blame and is impeached/resigns, and they take over. Both Cheney and Rove have been noticeably silent throughout this whole fiasco...

[Wabbajack]

11. The scapes for this are Blanco(D)

Nagin (D) and maybe the FEMA director and some low-level officials.

* and Dracula aren't going anywhere.

[blue sky at night]

12. The Whole World is Watching.....

And the Whole World wants him out; and into the World Court at the Hague as a War Criminal. (perhaps that is why the Bu$h Cabal renounced the treaty binding it to the Court signed by Bill Clinton)

The Defendant has rights, you know......the right to a Fair Trial.

[union_maid]

14. He's not going anywhere

What we've got is 2006. That's the hope for the country right now.

[Dandy]

26. You are someone who faces reality

Bush is not going to be impeached. He will remain in office until the end of his term. All the venom spewed at Bush only takes away energy from what we need to be doing and that is to take back the House and Senate. Concentrate on that instead of false hope that Bush will be removed from office.

[AntiCoup2K4]

15. In the Spiro Agnew tradition, Cheney's gotta go first.

He could always drop dead, but what would be even better is proof that he's behind all the illegal no bid Halliburton deals. We all KNOW he is, but proving it is a different matter. It's just too fucking convenient that they have contracts to rebuild the Gulf Coast before the body count's even done.

[sellitman]

17. Did i miss something?

Did the House and Senate switch from being Republican?

[Usrename]

18. International Criminal Court.

He is of no strategic intelligence value.

[GeorgeBushytail]

19. Meanwhile, the Rovegate investigation continues

Funny how that is so 6 crises ago.

I think it will bring them down.

[SillyGoose]

20. Never happen, not in a million years.

Bush would be clinging to the doorframes on the way out if he was removed from the WH.

My hope is that if impeachment proceedings were to ever take place, they would go for the 2 of them because a Cheney presidency scares the hell out of me.

[wli]

21. if he resigns at all, which is doubtful

I expect he'll follow Fujimori's example for his method of resignation, and Pinochet's example for evading justice.

[C_U_L8R]

22. We'll declare a national holiday

singing
laughing
hugging
dancing in the streets

(no worries about Cheney... once the house starts to crumble..
the whole thing is coming down... including the republican party)


oh joy

[Jacobin]

23. Suppose virgins start raining down from heaven

beautiful virgins, and they......glurp....rubs eyes

[NYC Liberal]

24. Why do you think Cheney has been staying far, far away from Bush?

He knows Bush is catching major shit for this, and while he may be evil, he isn't stupid. He wouldn't mind taking over (well, officially...) and so he doesn't want to be involved.

[Usrename]

25. I think the best we can hope for is to treat him like

a petulant child. It'll be our way or the highway.

Unless the hard right drops him, which they may when they see their base crumbling, he will remain in office.

[rumpel]

27. For someone, who can not think of any mistakes he may have made,

I don't think he will ever resign, none of them will.

[banana republican]

28. REMEMBER THE NIXON SLOGAN?????

GET SPIRO FIRST....

E.G GET CHENEY FIRST!!!!!!!

[WePurrsevere]

29. Bush doesn't even have as much class as Nixon...

(and that's not saying much)

he won't resign... he won't apologize... he won't even accept ANY responsibilty for HIS failings... he is by definition a true Sociopath.

So we're probably stuck with what we have and need to work on other priorities like:

keep getting the TRUTH out there via the Internet and bombarding the media to battle the LIES/SPIN

making absolutely sure that EVERY person's vote is counted

keep after the Republicans as well as the Dem reps... some more moderate Republicans are not straight party line (I know ours isn't 100%) and there's a chance that they can be reached with FACTS and logic.

helping in any way we can to get the Dems back in power.. first in '06 and then in '08

[JugDack]

30. LOL!!!!! Nice dream, but never happen.

I'm sorry, but as much as we'd all like to see him go, he's as likely to resign as I am to eat my own foot.

[NAO]

32. 8 Reasons why I would MUCH RATHER have Cheney be President than Bush

I would rather not have either as POTUS, but if forced to choose I would rather have Cheney than Bush because:

1. He is not a mentally-challenged, speech-impaired, burned-out drug-addict/alcoholic.

2. He is not a religious nut-job; he is not a rapture-ready believer in religious superstition.

3. Even though he is generally Evil, he is at least COMPETENT.

4. He does not have any brothers that could be potential future POTUS candidates.

5. His wife was not always insane and evil, and she is most defiantly not a xanexed-out Stepford Wife like Pickles. A strong, competent, intelligent woman is a boost to any man, even an evil heartless misanthrope like Cheney.

6. His LESBIAN DAUGHTER. He has a direct investment in embracing diversity, and his family is a constant nuisance to Radical Clerics of the Religious Reich. Plus, Cheney does not give a F**K what Robertson, Dobson, et. al think of him.

7. Pissing off the Religious Reich and destroying the Religious/Republican coalition is probably THE MOST IMPORTANT thing we need to do to ensure future electoral victories for Democrats.

8. He is not "charming" like Bush. Granted, Bush evokes a visceral hatred, disgust, revulsion, and rage in most sane people. But he does have a HUGE following of people who WORSHIP him. They think his fake cowboy act, his fake Texas accent, and his retarded speech patterns are adorable and endearing. NOBODY finds Cheney adorable or endearing.

For these and many other reasons, I would MUCH RATHER have President Cheney than President Bush.

[Bridget Burke]

33. If things got that tough for Bush....

Say, after the 2006 elections go well for the Democrats.

1) Cheney will resign for "health reasons"

2) A safe choice will become VP. (My recurring nightmare--the "truly bipartisan" selection of Leiberman.)

3) Bush will resign.

4) Pardons for all....